"How happy we shall be, When once a perfect unit. Like lovers of the moyen age are we, Singing silly persiflage are we!"

--Cole Porter, "Oh, What a Pretty Pair of Lovers"

"It is such people that take delight in flattery. When they are addressed in language expressly adapted to flatter their vanity, they look upon such empty persiflage as a testimony to the truth of their own praises."